Chargers can’t get away from Tom Brady questions

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There are plenty of questions about the Chargers going into the season.

But at the moment, that one in particular seems to be getting asked most often.

Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco knows that speculation about soon-to-be free agent quarterback Tom Brady has dwarfed most offseason topics, and his team is not immune.

I’ve been asked the question I can’t tell you how many different ways and different times,” Telesco said, via Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles Times. “The way I’ve kind of answered it is this: We’re early in the process, way too early to eliminate anything right now.

“Like, we’re more in a wide-lens evaluation process to see what fits, what doesn’t fit. We’ll narrow things down later on. But we’ll see.”

The Chargers have a vacancy with Philip Rivers also headed to free agency, and getting older wouldn’t ordinarily make sense.

But Brady is obviously a different case, and for a team moving into a time-share of a new stadium while trying to win some degree of market share in their new city, the appeal is clear.

11 responses to “Chargers can’t get away from Tom Brady questions

  1. Sure they can, all they have to do is sign a QB. But the Chargers aren’t going to sign a QB older than the one they had.

    Besides, TB is not going near the AFC West unless they pay him stupid money to lose to the Chiefs twice a year.

  2. At least we’re not the Raiders, who doling out known talent and taking risks on draft picks!

  3. Some poor schmuck, probably Herbert, is going to be their QB of the future, but on a team owned and run this poorly, there is no future. Don’t see why any free agent would sign there if they have options. It would be all downside for Brady.

  4. Just an odd, impossible to imagine pairing. Brady has never cared most about the money and that is literally the only thing the Chargers have to offer him. No fan base, no prospect of contending anytime soon, absolutely nothing that he could possibly want.

  5. Brady is just loving this right now. Part of me likes it, part of me hates it if it’s why I think he’s doing to the fans.

  6. If rivers had the front office and coach that Brady had them he would be the goat and probley wouldn’t have lost to the giants in those super bowls

  7. smoothrobinva says:
    February 26, 2020 at 11:12 am
    If rivers had the front office and coach that Brady had them he would be the goat and probley wouldn’t have lost to the giants in those super bowls

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    One thing Rivers has done well is spread the ball around. He doesn’t have binkies like Brady is prone to doing.

    Every time NE played SD I would expect BB to play plenty of zone coverage for this reason, other than knowing a certain tendency in certain situations knowing man would be better.

    Brady has obvious binkies which has cost NE winnable games. No question about it. Brady has always been better with a run game, proper play action and spreading it around, most notably against man coverage. Zone he shreds all day long, especially if a team isn’t that great on defense.

    Ugh.

    When you can only score 13 points over 4 qtrs, that’s simply not going to cut it in the offensive era.

  8. Dude, the questions won’t go away until you say “absolutely no way, no how, never.”
    – Hope that helps.

  9. Chargers “O” line would result in Brady being on his back most of the time. They should have kept the popular Philip Rivers for at least a year while transitioning to a new QB. A rookie or a retread going into Kroenke stadium will be another disaster for the “LA” Chargers. They can still sign Rivers and should do it.

  10. When you can only score 13 points over 4 qtrs, that’s simply not going to cut it in the offensive era.
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    Unless it’s the 2019 Super Bowl
    NE 13 LA 3.

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